Xconomy Forum: Healthcare In Transition

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An avalanche of advances in information technology is poised to reshape the healthcare landscape, and the Boston area, home to one of the world’s greatest concentrations of medical research institutions and technology innovators, is at the forefront of this transformation. The innovations afoot extend far beyond electronic medical records and other efforts to make traditional medical practices more efficient, encompassing everything from health-management apps and social networking for patients and doctors to robotic caregivers and implantable sensors that help physicians keep tabs on their patients from afar. Should the potential of such technologies be realized, healthcare will ultimately be defined much less by the treatment of illness and much more by the enhancement of wellness throughout people’s lives.

Xconomy is rallying top clinicians, entrepreneurs, executives, and technology innovators for a lively forum about this critical transformation at the new headquarters of the MIT Media Lab. Through keynote speeches, executive panels, presentations from visionary startups, and live demos, we’ll give you a unique, up-close look at the promise and reality of healthcare IT.

Special Opportunity to attend The GET Conference 2010 on April 27 in Cambridge MA. Xconomy readers can receive a $250 discount on registration. The conference will bring together top luminaries in technology, science, industry, medicine, public policy and other disciplines to discuss the impact of personal genomes on our lives, work and society. This unique occasion also marks the last chance in history to bring everyone with a personal genome sequence on the same stage. Confirmed speakers, all fully sequenced, include James Watson, Jay Flatley, Skip Gates, Stephen Quake, Misha Angrist, George Church, James Lupski, Esther Dyson, Dan Stoicescu, Seong-Jin Kim, Greg Lucier and Rosalynn Gill. Registration is limited to 200 people. To register and for more information go to www.getconference.org. For the Xconomy discounted rate, enter the discount code XCGET.

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